Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents.
Acrobat Reader has a new modern look. This includes a full set of
commenting tools to add sticky notes, highlight text, and use lines,
shapes, and stamps on your PDFs.
Easily e-sign any document or form. Type responses on your PDF, add your
e-signature or initials, and send the form electronically. Use smart
autofill to make form-filling faster.

The latest version of AppleWorks - (formerly) the most popular program on the Mac - is
really several applications in one. It gives you six core capabilities (and a
number of combinations thereof): word processing, spreadsheet, database,
presentation, drawing and painting.

An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...
Aquamacs is a user-friendly build of the powerful Emacs text editor.
Aquamacs integrates with the Mac and offers the same comforts that any
application on the Mac provides. Yet, it comes with all the ergonomy and
extensibility you've come to expect from GNU Emacs.

BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the
Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors
and software developers, this award-winning product provides an
abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and
manipulation of text. An intelligent interface provides easy access to
BBEdit’s best-of-class features, including grep pattern matching, search
and replace across multiple files, project definition tools, function
navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, code
folding, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Mac OS X Unix
scripting support, text and code completion, and of course a complete
set of robust HTML markup tools.

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make
writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and
uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on
the eyes. Also, Bean is available free of charge.
MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people, but
sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.

BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk
is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX
.bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag & drop
or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and
automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps
track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for
searching your database through several keys.
BibDesk integrates well with TeX for creating citations and
bibliographies. This integration includes a Citation search completion
service, and drag & drop (cut & paste) support for adding citations to
TeX files.

Bookends is a full-featured and cost-effective bibliography, reference,
and information management system for students and professionals.
With Bookends you can directly search for and import references from
many online sources, including the Library of Congress, PubMed, Amazon,
and hundreds of libraries from around the world.
Search PubMed automatically in the background and have Bookends discover
and notify you of publications of interest as soon as they appear.
Import references from EndNote, Reference Manager, and ProCite
databases.

CMacTeX is an integrated suite of programs for implementing TeX on
Macintosh OS X. CMacTeX can be configured to work in an integrated
fashion with the popular Macintosh editors BBEdit, TextWrangler and
Alpha. It is compatible with the version of TeX found on most Unix
systems and can even interpret any Unix directory paths that may be
embedded in documents originally written on a Unix system.

Make the dream of the paperless office come true with DEVONthink and keep all your
text and RTF files,
scanned documents,
notes,
e-mails,
images,
chat logs,
bookmarks and
multimedia files
together in one simple to use database. Integrate both local documents
and live content from the Internet to keep all project-related
information together.
Pro office has scanner support and OCR

Leave behind the tedious work of formatting
bibliographies, finding full text, and searching
for references.
More than just a reference manager.
EndNote moves you through the research process as you search, organize,
write, publish and share.

Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take
care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling word processor
specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics
and stage plays. It combines powerful word processing with professional
script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package. There is
no need to learn about script formatting rules - Final Draft
automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as
you write.

Delivers the reliability you'd expect from a world-leader in OCR software.
Easily transform paper documents, PDFs and digital photos of text into
editable and searchable files. No more manual retyping or reformatting.
Instead you can search, share, archive, and copy information from
documents for reuse and quotation - saving you time, effort and hassles.

Grammarian PRO, the professional writer's tool kit, is the ultimate
writing tool to combat those embarrassing writing errors that everyone
tends to make, a universal interactive grammar check, contextual
spelling check, punctuation check, dictionary, thesaurus, AutoCorrect,
and AutoType tool that virtually works within every program on your
computer.

Should LaTeXiT be categorized, it would be an equation editor. This is
not the plain truth, since LaTeXiT is "simply" a graphical interface
above a LaTeX engine. However, its large set of features is a reason to
see it as an editor; this is the goal in fact.

License: Freeware

Developer/Publisher: Pierre Chatelier

Modification Date: July 13, 2016

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and a working LaTeX installation (TeX Live or MacTeX)

LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and
feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your
productivity. LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the
most powerful Free and Open Source office suite on the market: Writer
(word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw
(vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula
editing).

LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and
feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your
productivity. LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the
most powerful Free and Open Source office suite on the market.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their
appearance (WYSIWYG).
LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use
of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for
creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation
editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and
books. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference
list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to
create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad
array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in.
LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the
box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger
painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You
just write. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed
output — or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced —
looks like nothing else.

MacGhostView is a general purpose Postscript and PDF previewer for the
Macintosh and is based on ghostscript 7.05. If a Postscript document
conforms to Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions, the pages of the
document can be displayed in any order.

Mariner Write is a powerful yet streamlined Mac word processing
application. Boasting an elegant and easy-to-use interface, Mariner
Write can run on only 2MB of RAM. And that's no typo; only 38 MB less
than Word.

Mellel is an advanced, multilingual word processor built for Mac OS X.
Designed for scholars and writers, it offers innovative page, paragraph,
and character styles, outline, tables, headers and footers, citations
and bibliography, tabs, and much more.

Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.
Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw
allows you to easily create text-based art (like diagrams, layouts, flow
charts) and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary
formats and more. Because it's all just text, it can be easily embedded
almost anywhere. Of course, exporting as images is also supported (PNG
and SVG).

NeoOffice is an office suite for Mac that is based on OpenOffice and
LibreOffice. With NeoOffice, you can view, edit, and save OpenOffice
documents, LibreOffice documents, and simple Microsoft Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint documents.

Introducing the latest member of the Nisus family: Nisus Writer Pro.
Built from the same core as Nisus Writer Express, Nisus Writer Pro adds
new features while keeping the familiar look and feel that has won
praise from users and the press alike. Advanced, But Easy to Use Nisus
Writer Pro brings new features such as Table of Contents, Indexing,
Bookmarks, Widow and Orphan control, Cross References, Line Numbering,
and Text Wrap around images. Familiar Classic features are also on
board, like attribute sensitive Find and Replace, an upgraded Nisus
Macro Language, and Glossaries.

Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for
word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and
more. It is available in many languages and works on all common
computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard
format and can also read and write files from other common office
software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of
charge for any purpose.

OzTeX is a Mac implementation of Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system.
TeX is mainly used in the academic community for the production of
theses, papers and books, or wherever high-quality output is desired. It
is particularly good at typesetting mathematics.
OzTeX includes all the popular formats and macro packages. Plain TeX,
LaTeX, AMS-TeX, AMS-LaTeX and REVTeX are all installed and ready to run.

Stationery, newsletters, resumes, brochures, reports, proposals,
business cards - whatever you write, Pages '08 offers an intuitive way to
create beautiful, media-rich documents using impressive features you
know how to use right away.

Reference Miner searches the Internet to find and display reference
information from PubMed, Amazon (US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, and
Japan), the Library of Congress, and Google Scholar. Special features
include a built-in web browser (reference surfing), drag and drop
download of pdfs (requires institutional access privileges) and web
pages from PubMed, Amazon, and Google Scholar, the display of book cover
art (Amazon), and the ability to easily perform complex searches.

Scrivener is software for Mac OS X aimed at writers of all kinds - novelists, short-story
writers, journalists, academics - who need to gather disparate items of research together
and who are working towards creating and organising a (possibly very long and) difficult
piece of text.

skEdit features customizable syntax highlighting for HTML, ColdFusion,
CSS, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, and Python. You can change colors, add
new keywords, etc. Keywords can be defined using regular expressions, or
just as plain-text keywords.
As you type HTML, ColdFusion, MovableType tags, or CSS, skEdit will
present possible completions in a menu. Pressing return inserts the
completion.
skEdit's integrated SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) support allows
you to both transfer and edit files on a remote server that supports
SFTP.
And many more features.

You can use Smultron to create or edit any text document. Everything
from a web page, a note or a script to any single piece of text or code.
Smultron is very easy to use, it is fast and uses powerful technologies
like auto save. It helps you to do what you want to do without getting
in your way. So you can save time and get things done. Use Smultron 10
for all your text needs.

SubEthaEdit kickstarted collaborative editing with its immediate and
easy way to connect and work on text. In 2003, it won an Apple Design
Award for its intuitive interface: Just add your co-workers to the
document and start typing. SubEthaEdit can work without any Internet
connection. Bonjour networking makes it easy to just collaborate without
the hassle of setting up connections and jumping through hoops to see
each other.
Of course SubEthaEdit also supports collaboration over the Internet.
Just send invites via iMessage or Email. The app takes care of the
complicated stuff like mapping network ports in your router and making
the document available, leaving you able to concentrate on what matters:
Your text

Tex-Edit Plus is a styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's
bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. It's fast,
efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. It's also great for
cleaning up text which is transmitted over the internet.
Plus, the Text to Speech feature is great for the visually impaired.

Texmaker is a free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor for linux,
macosx and windows systems that integrates many tools needed to develop
documents with LaTeX, in just one application.
Texmaker includes unicode support, spell checking, auto-completion, code
folding and a built-in pdf viewer with synctex support and continuous
view mode.
Texmaker is easy to use and to configure.
Texmaker is released under the GPL license .

TeXShop is a TeX previewer for Mac OS X, written in Cocoa. Since pdf is
a native file format on OS X, TeXShop uses "pdftex" and "pdflatex"
rather than "tex" and "latex" to typeset in its default configuration;
these programs in the standard TeX Live distribution of TeX produce pdf
output instead of dvi output.
TeXShop uses TeX Live, a standard distribution of Tex programs
maintained by the TeX Users Group (TUG) for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux,
and various other Unix machines. The distribution includes tex, latex,
dvips, tex fonts, cyrillic fonts, and virtually all other programs and
supporting files commonly used in the TeX world. The most recent version
of this distribution is maintained for the Mac by the MacTeX TeXnical
Working Group of the TeX Users Group and available under the "Obtaining"
tab.

License: Freeware

Developer/Publisher: Richard Koch and Dirk Olmes

Modification Date: January 10, 2018

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher and a working LaTeX installation (TeX Live or MacTeX)

TextMate attempts to bring Apple's approach to operating systems into
the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI,
TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert
scripters and novice users alike.

The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end
program (working environment) that will be available for all today's
major desktop operating systems—in particular, MS Windows (XP/Vista/7),
typical GNU/Linux distros and other X11-based systems, as well as Mac OS
X. It is deliberately modeled on Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop for
Mac OS X, which is credited with a resurgence of TeX usage on the Mac
platform.

Anytime you enter text in your Mac by typing it at the keyboard, TypeIt4Me can help you do it
faster and more accurately.
First you define a number of abbreviations and the full text entries that they represent, then you
watch the Mac expand them on the fly even as you continue typing!

Typinator is an easy-to-use automatic text software that helps you to quickly insert
phrases or pictures into any type of document.
Setup is easy: You just define an abbreviation along with its replacement text or picture.
Usage is even easier: Whenever you type one of your abbreviations in any application,
Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement.

UnicodeChecker is an application for Mac OS X that displays information
for every code point from the Unicode Standard 4.0.1. For a given
number, UnicodeChecker will display that character along with its UTF-8,
UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings, XHTML entity, Unicode Name, mapping
information and much more.
UnicodeChecker features string utilities for converting strings to the
four Unicode Normalization Forms or converting from or to
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) as specified in RFC 3490
"Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)".
There are also several text conversion functions available to all
applications from the "Services" menu. So you can convert text to all
four Unicode Normalization Forms as well as to and from HTML character
entities (very useful for HTML authors) from within any application
supporting OS X Services.

For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world.
WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered
word processors you're used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text.